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Handbook of Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research Methods
A Social Science Perspective
9781800376618 Edward Elgar Publishing
This Handbook provides an in-depth discussion on doing cross-cultural research more ethically, sensibly and responsibly with diverse groups of people around the globe. It focuses on cross-cultural research in the social sciences where researchers who are often from Western, educated and rich backgrounds are conducting research with individuals from different socio-cultural settings that are often non-Western, illiterate and poor.
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This Handbook provides an in-depth discussion on doing cross-cultural research more ethically, sensibly and responsibly with diverse groups of people around the globe. It focuses on cross-cultural research in the social sciences where researchers who are often from Western, educated and rich backgrounds are conducting research with individuals from different socio-cultural settings who are often non-Western, illiterate and poor.
Covering both theoretical perspectives as well as practical ways to conduct research in cross-cultural settings, the contributors explore research work across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. Chapters provide keen insights into Indigenous research methods and approaches to cross-cultural research with a range of different groups of Indigenous peoples, highlighting the ethical and methodological challenges for researchers conducting cross-cultural research. Top scholars in the field suggest practical tips and information on lessons they have learnt to make this a useful tool kit for early-career researchers and students.
This will be a critical read for students of development studies, transnational studies and anthropology who are interested in pursuing cross-cultural research in diverse settings. It is also an invigorating read for researchers who conduct cross-cultural research as well as those who work with people from ethnic minorities and refugees.
Covering both theoretical perspectives as well as practical ways to conduct research in cross-cultural settings, the contributors explore research work across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. Chapters provide keen insights into Indigenous research methods and approaches to cross-cultural research with a range of different groups of Indigenous peoples, highlighting the ethical and methodological challenges for researchers conducting cross-cultural research. Top scholars in the field suggest practical tips and information on lessons they have learnt to make this a useful tool kit for early-career researchers and students.
This will be a critical read for students of development studies, transnational studies and anthropology who are interested in pursuing cross-cultural research in diverse settings. It is also an invigorating read for researchers who conduct cross-cultural research as well as those who work with people from ethnic minorities and refugees.
Critical Acclaim
‘The book provides an impressive and comprehensive set of views and methodological perspectives on how to be a true respectful and culturally sensitive cross-cultural researcher. Pranee Liamputtong has assembled a diverse group of contributors that include academics, field researchers and indigenous people; describing different approaches that range from community art to gardening. A must read!’
– Maurizio Trevisan, VinUniversity, Vietnam
‘This seminal book makes the critical contribution that cross-cultural research traditions are valid on and of their own. It is a major deconstruction of research approaches that privilege coloniality perspectives, challenging the predominant western research approaches and interpretations, and inviting alternative research culture values and orientations. Readers will gain new insights on the undoing of the neo-colonial polemics that inclusiveness and diversity in scholarly traditions is not just politics interfering with research practices, but that the research enterprise in the social sciences, like the personal, is political. The book makes the compelling argument that imported research traditions to cultural communities underplay or are dismissive of the real harm of coloniality to constructing authentic knowledge of and for cultural communities. This Handbook makes a clear, logical build-up to theoretical and conceptual frameworks of cross-cultural research approaches in the context of contemporary literature and elaborates on the implications of indigenist traditions for research practice, training, policy, and future directions.’
– Elias Mpofu, University of North Texas, US; University of Sydney, Australia; and University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa
‘Professor Liamputtong has created a landmark work that will be essential reading for ALL researchers. This book addresses the most complex challenges we have in international research today – of equity, diversity, inclusion, indigeneity, and accessibility. A powerful and needed work for the times.’
– Allan Kellehear, University of Vermont, US
– Maurizio Trevisan, VinUniversity, Vietnam
‘This seminal book makes the critical contribution that cross-cultural research traditions are valid on and of their own. It is a major deconstruction of research approaches that privilege coloniality perspectives, challenging the predominant western research approaches and interpretations, and inviting alternative research culture values and orientations. Readers will gain new insights on the undoing of the neo-colonial polemics that inclusiveness and diversity in scholarly traditions is not just politics interfering with research practices, but that the research enterprise in the social sciences, like the personal, is political. The book makes the compelling argument that imported research traditions to cultural communities underplay or are dismissive of the real harm of coloniality to constructing authentic knowledge of and for cultural communities. This Handbook makes a clear, logical build-up to theoretical and conceptual frameworks of cross-cultural research approaches in the context of contemporary literature and elaborates on the implications of indigenist traditions for research practice, training, policy, and future directions.’
– Elias Mpofu, University of North Texas, US; University of Sydney, Australia; and University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa
‘Professor Liamputtong has created a landmark work that will be essential reading for ALL researchers. This book addresses the most complex challenges we have in international research today – of equity, diversity, inclusion, indigeneity, and accessibility. A powerful and needed work for the times.’
– Allan Kellehear, University of Vermont, US
Contributors
Contributors: Anna Adcock, Anson Au, Alexandra Brewis, Clifford T. Ballantyne, Jennifer Buckle, Richard Chenhall, Fiona Cram, Ranjan Datta, Danila D’Errico, Sonya Corbin Dwyer, Fran Edmonds, Gabriele Griffin, Nigel Hunt, Alison Hutchinson, Mpoe Johannah Keikelame, Carolyn M. Melro, Emily Mundo-Harrison, Lieketseng Ned, Rinchen Pelzang, Grace Sarra, Roseanne Schuster, Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan, Marnee Shay, Johanna Söderström, Leslie Swartz, Nisha Toomey, Heather Wallace, Annette Woods, Amber Wutich
Contents
Contents:
Preface xvi
1 Conducting cross-cultural research qualitatively in social
science: setting the scene 1
Pranee Liamputtong
PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS
2 Grounded ontologies: Indigenous methodologies in qualitative
cross-cultural research 26
Marnee Shay, Grace Sarra and Annette Woods
3 Doing decolonial and indigenist research: a reflection 40
Lieketseng Ned, Mpoe Johannah Keikelame and Leslie Swartz
4 Kaupapa Māori research 56
Fiona Cram and Anna Adcock
5 Cultural insider–outsider: reflecting on positionality in shared
and differing identities 85
Sonya Corbin Dwyer and Jennifer L. Buckle
6 Cultural sensibility in accessing participants in cross-cultural research 100
Rinchen Pelzang and Alison M. Hutchinson
7 Researcher’s refusals: ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in
qualitative research. Interviews on the Thailand–Myanmar border 121
Nisha Toomey
PART II QUALITATIVE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH
METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
8 Cross-cultural interviewing 142
Gabriele Griffin
9 Critical narrative inquiry as psychosocial accompaniment with
Aboriginal communities 160
Amy Quayle and Christopher Sonn
10 Cross-lingual focus groups in cross-cultural community-based
participatory research 180
Maira Quintanilha and Maria Mayan
11 Life histories and life diagrams 196
Johanna Söderström
12 The walking interview in cross-cultural research 214
Nigel Hunt and Danila D’Errico
13 Intercultural research: Aboriginal young people and the digital
storytelling process as knowledge exchange 233
Fran Edmonds, Richard Chenhall and Emily Munro-Harrison
14 Body mapping: an empowering method for ethnoanatomical
and ethnophysiological insights in qualitative research 256
Heather Julie Wallace
15 Ethnographic methods in cross-cultural research 273
Roseanne C. Schuster, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis and Cindi
SturtzSreetharan
16 Indigenising photovoice: infusing Māori cultural values into
Western research methods 290
Glenis Mark and Amohia Boulton
17 Decolonising community-based participatory research:
applying arts-based methods to transformative learning spaces 309
Carolyn M. Melro and Clifford T. Ballantyne
18 Cross-cultural community gardening as an Indigenist
methodology: a learning ceremonial journey from a colour
settler perspective 324
Ranjan Datta
19 Transnational cross-cultural research: modern challenges and
solutions for field access, data collection, and analysis 335
Anson Au
Index 356
Preface xvi
1 Conducting cross-cultural research qualitatively in social
science: setting the scene 1
Pranee Liamputtong
PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS
2 Grounded ontologies: Indigenous methodologies in qualitative
cross-cultural research 26
Marnee Shay, Grace Sarra and Annette Woods
3 Doing decolonial and indigenist research: a reflection 40
Lieketseng Ned, Mpoe Johannah Keikelame and Leslie Swartz
4 Kaupapa Māori research 56
Fiona Cram and Anna Adcock
5 Cultural insider–outsider: reflecting on positionality in shared
and differing identities 85
Sonya Corbin Dwyer and Jennifer L. Buckle
6 Cultural sensibility in accessing participants in cross-cultural research 100
Rinchen Pelzang and Alison M. Hutchinson
7 Researcher’s refusals: ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in
qualitative research. Interviews on the Thailand–Myanmar border 121
Nisha Toomey
PART II QUALITATIVE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH
METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
8 Cross-cultural interviewing 142
Gabriele Griffin
9 Critical narrative inquiry as psychosocial accompaniment with
Aboriginal communities 160
Amy Quayle and Christopher Sonn
10 Cross-lingual focus groups in cross-cultural community-based
participatory research 180
Maira Quintanilha and Maria Mayan
11 Life histories and life diagrams 196
Johanna Söderström
12 The walking interview in cross-cultural research 214
Nigel Hunt and Danila D’Errico
13 Intercultural research: Aboriginal young people and the digital
storytelling process as knowledge exchange 233
Fran Edmonds, Richard Chenhall and Emily Munro-Harrison
14 Body mapping: an empowering method for ethnoanatomical
and ethnophysiological insights in qualitative research 256
Heather Julie Wallace
15 Ethnographic methods in cross-cultural research 273
Roseanne C. Schuster, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis and Cindi
SturtzSreetharan
16 Indigenising photovoice: infusing Māori cultural values into
Western research methods 290
Glenis Mark and Amohia Boulton
17 Decolonising community-based participatory research:
applying arts-based methods to transformative learning spaces 309
Carolyn M. Melro and Clifford T. Ballantyne
18 Cross-cultural community gardening as an Indigenist
methodology: a learning ceremonial journey from a colour
settler perspective 324
Ranjan Datta
19 Transnational cross-cultural research: modern challenges and
solutions for field access, data collection, and analysis 335
Anson Au
Index 356
